!!!Jenbach, Markt

Jenbach, Tirol, market town in the district of Schwaz, alt. 
563 m, pop. 6,188, area 15.22 km%%sup 2/%, south of Lake 
Achen on Kasbach, a brook in the Lower Inn Valley. - Kolpinghaus 
Organisation centre, multipurpose hall, Hoehere Technische Lehranstalt 
fuer Betriebstechnik (secondary school with focus on industrial 
engineering), adult education centre, electric power station 
(private), Achenseewerk J. Storage Power Station (built 1927, 
79 Megawatts); 2,889 employed in 1991: textiles (knitwear) and 
machine-building (railway cars, compressors), manufacture of nirosta 
receptacles, plastics processing; private railways of economic 
significance: Zillertal railway, Achensee railway (cogwheel steam 
railway); some tourism (34,196 overnight stays). - From the 
15%%sup th/% century, silver and copper smelting, 1685-1839 ironworks, 
former scythe works, now an industrial monument. Gothic parish church 
(1488-1500, renovated in Baroque style around 1735) with Baroque 
frescoes, high altar with cross of Damian (1959), guild poles (around 
1512); Protestant church (1968). Waterfall on Weissenbach stream.

!Literature
Jenbach-Buch, 1953; H. Baar, Beitraege zur Geschichte von 
Jenbach nach 1945, master´s thesis, Innsbruck 1990.


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